CAMPS AND CRUISES OF AN ORNITHOL- 



OGIST 



By George Shiras, 3rd 



All the illustrations accompanying this article are from photographs by Mr 

 Frank M. Chapman. They are copyrighted by D. Applet on & Co., publishers of 

 "Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist/ 1 from which they are republished by 

 courtesy of Mr Chapman. 



WHEN an experienced field nat- 

 uralist of marked literary abil- 

 ity has mastered all the in- 

 tricacies of modern photography, we have 

 the best kind of a combination for the 

 production of an attractive and reliable 

 book on natural history. In a recent pub- 

 lication, bearing the above title, Mr 

 Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds in 

 the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, has embodied in detail his last eight 



years' ornithological expeditions on the 

 North American continent, coverijng 

 more than 65,000 miles of travel on land 

 and water, and involving an immense 

 amount of original investigation, aside 

 from the collection of a series of bird 

 photographs heretofore unequaled within 

 the compass of a single volume.* 



* Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist. By 

 Frank M. Chapman. With 250 photographs 

 from nature. D. Appleton & Co., 1909. $3 net. 



SAND RENDERED in FEATHERS : A YOUNG EEACK SKIMMER ON COBB'S ISLAND 



The hollow where the eggs are laid is not a chance depression, but is made by the bird — 

 the female, so far as was observed — which, squatting close, turns round and round, actually 

 boring out a shallow cavity in the easily yielding sand. 



